CVE-2014-8866

Severity

47%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

115%

The compatibility mode hypercall argument translation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.4.x, when running on a 64-bit hypervisor, allows local 32-bit HVM guests to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving altering the high halves of registers while in 64-bit mode.

The compatibility mode hypercall argument translation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.4.x, when running on a 64-bit hypervisor, allows local 32-bit HVM guests to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving altering the high halves of registers while in 64-bit mode.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-12-01 15:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Xen 3.3.0

3.3.0

Xen 3.3.1

3.3.1

Xen 3.3.2

3.3.2

Xen 3.4.0

3.4.0

Xen 3.4.1

3.4.1

Xen 3.4.2

3.4.2

Xen 3.4.3

3.4.3

Xen 3.4.4

3.4.4

Xen 4.0.0

4.0.0

Xen 4.0.1

4.0.1

Xen 4.0.2

4.0.2

Xen 4.0.3

4.0.3

Xen 4.0.4

4.0.4

Xen 4.1.0

4.1.0

Xen 4.1.1

4.1.1

Xen 4.1.2

4.1.2

Xen 4.1.3

4.1.3

Xen 4.1.4

4.1.4

Xen 4.1.5

4.1.5

Xen 4.1.6.1

4.1.6.1

Xen 4.2.0

4.2.0

Xen 4.2.1

4.2.1

Xen 4.2.2

4.2.2

Xen 4.2.3

4.2.3

Xen Xen 4.3.0

4.3.0

Xen 4.3.1

4.3.1

Xen Xen 4.4.0

4.4.0

Xen 4.4.0 release candidate 1

4.4.0

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

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